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| Personal background |
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Age: x'28'
Marital status: Divorced
Kids: 2 (seems like 4 by the state of the house)
Occupation: Computing professional (now there's an oxymoron for you)
Resides in: Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Likes: Alien contact
Dislikes: Nocturnal alien probing
Secret wish: If I told you that it wouldn't be secret, now would it?
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extra-terrestrial life has to exist. There are billions of stars in billions of glaxies. Even though the chances of type 1 civilisations are billions to one against, there should be at least one out there.
Will we ever find them? Maybe and maybe not. We have only been transmitting for the last 50-100 years and within the next 50-100 years our 'stray' transmissions will all but cease as more efficient communication styles are found. Considering that, on average, most stars are millions of light years away its possible that the information we are receiving on their planets is from a time that they are still banging each other on the head with clubs.
If there is so little chance, why do we bother? Because the next civilised planet has as much chance of being just around the galactic corner as it has of being on the other side of the cosmos. And (note to self: never start a sentence with a conjunction) if it is local it is too big a thing not to be part of.
Why not send out a galactic welcome? Hopefully by the time someone gets it and responds, humans may just have matured enough not to make jackasses of themselves when the neighbours call round for a cup of quarks. |
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